WHAT IS A PUPPY RAISER??
Puppy Raisers Lovingly Donate Their Time and Affection
Puppy Raisers ( we lovingly call ‘em Praisers) are vital to Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions. These are generous, loving individuals and families who open their hearts and homes to puppies for 4-10 months. They donate their time and love to socialize, teach basic obedience, and attend puppy raiser field trips.
Our program couldn’t prosper without dedicated Puppy Raisers. After months of lovingly and selflessly fostering our puppies, puppy raisers turn their pups back to Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions for advanced training. Then, the dog is teamed with a disabled person on our waiting list.
Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions Depends on Puppy Raisers
Puppy Raising can be a very positive experience for an entire family as everyone has fun. Children learn responsibility, adults learn valuable dog training techniques from professionals, and everyone is a team in making a dramatic difference in the life of a special needs child and their family. Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions covers the costs of maintaining and raising our puppies so that our Puppy Raisers don’t incur expenses except the vital expenditure of time, love, and security that they provide our exceptional puppies.
Puppy Raisers Make a Huge Difference in the Life of A Disabled Child
PAWSITIVE SERVICE PUPPIES MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Perhaps there is no better way to educate the public and create awareness and tolerance of Autism and other Developmental Disabilities than through the eyes of a puppy being raised to serve a child with special needs. We are committed to serving special children with disabilities regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disabilities, or nationality.
Another important role the child with Autism can take, is that of care taking and teaching the dog. Most children with ASD are used to being taken care of and 
“trained” and have often been on the receiving end of ABA, speech, occupational, and auditory therapies. Switching roles and being on the “other end” can prove to be educational, affirming, and nurturing for these special children.
One of all the most powerful ways a Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions service dog can assist a child with ASD is to offer dependable and boundless, unconditional love. This can prove to be a potent antidote to the poison of judgment and intolerance that many children challenged with ASD have received from their less enlightened peers and society as a whole.
From the moment they are selected for service work, our puppies share in the daily joy of enriching relationships with children, adults, and other animals. They interact with a variety of people, animals, environments, noises, stimuli, and obstacles daily.
Our puppies are carefully selected on the basis of social skills, trainability, intelligence, tolerance to human intervention, and consistent, calm, even temperament. All of these traits are paramount to their success and the success of the children they serve.
DONATIONS:
Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions relies on fund raising and generosity from individuals like you, corporations, family foundations, community service clubs, and other sources. These funds cover operating expenses, training of dogs, food, toys, medication, veterinary care, insurance, and administrative costs, just to name a few.
Families receiving a Pawsitive Serivce Dog Solutions Dog are only required to provide a portion of the cost of their service dog and the cost of buying and maintaining a service dog is fully deductible as a medical expense. You can read what the IRS says about this HERE.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation. You will be making a life-changing difference in the life of a special needs child who desperately needs a service dog. Due to the nature of the intensive and specialized training each our service dogs receives, along with the follow up services we provide to families, money is greatly needed to support these placements.
- Sponsor a dog: For a $500 tax-deductible donation, a puppy-in-training can be sponsored for a year. Donors receive photographs and updates on the sponsored dog and its training and progress.
Trevor McCabe’s Mom, Traci, makes these beautiful Autism Awareness Wreaths as a fund raiser for their service-dog-in-training, Kimber. To purchase one, enter “Autism Wreath for Trevor’s dog Kimber,” when you make your PayPal donation.
The cost is $55 for a large one (as pictured) $40 for medium and $25 for small.
All proceeds from Autism Wreaths support the training and placement of Trevor's service dog Kimber
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin, the Diary of Anais Nin, Volume II
